Please note

If you decide to uninstall Slimstat Analytics, all the stats will be PERMANENTLY deleted from your database. Make sure to setup a database backup (wp_slim_*) to avoid losing your data.

If you are upgrading from a version prior to 4.0, please install version 4.0 first to upgrade the database structure and download the new Geolocation data.

Support Our Work

Slimstat Analytics is an open source project, dependent in large parts on donations. This page
is for those who want to donate money – be it once, be it regularly, be it a small or a big amount. Everything is set up for an easy donation process.
Try it out, you’ll be amazed how good it feels! If you’re on a tight budget, please consider writing a review for Slimstat as a token of appreciation for our hard work!

Screenshots

Overview - Your website traffic at a glance

Activity Log - A real-time view of your visitors' whereabouts

Settings - Plenty of options to customize the plugin's behavior

Interactive World Map - See where your visitors are coming from

Responsive layout - Keep an eye on your reports on the go

Installation

In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Add New

Search for WP Slimstat Analytics

Click on Install Now under WP Slimstat Analytics and then activate the plugin

Make sure your template calls wp_footer() or the equivalent hook somewhere (possibly just before the </body> tag)

Go to Slimstat > Settings > Maintenance tab > MaxMind IP to Country section and click on “Install GeoLite DB” to detect your visitors’ countries based on their IP addresses

If your wp-admin folder is not publicly accessible, make sure to check the FAQs to see if there’s anything else you need to do

Reviews

Due to the multiple bugs and the nosupport policy of another “reputed” stats plugin, we decided to install slimstats on a dozen of websites. And suddenly no major bugs, a small glitch was fixed in a couple of hours thanks to their fast and great support! Simply sad that we didn’t do it earlier 😉

I could not imagine how this plugin was useful until I installed it. It is awful, and every item it controls is very easy to configure. If you want to know who is visiting your site, when and from which country (or city), this plugin is made for you. You can even see the results on a map of the world!
But nothing is perfect, and I have had a problem with this map, which disapeared after an update. I opened a ticket to signal that; the solution was found in less than 48 hours, and a new update published.
A geat product + A responsive team = Five stars

Interested in development?

Changelog

4.7.5.3

[New] For those who can’t manage to automatically update their local copy of our premium add-ons, we’ve added a link to manually download the zip file. You’ll find it under the Plugins screen, once you’ve entered and saved the corresponding license key under Slimstat > Add-ons.

[Fix] The world map was not being displayed correctly if no data points were available for the selected time range (thank you, Michel).

4.7.5.2

[Update] You can now customize the amount of dots displayed on the World Map, under Slimstat > Settings > Reports > Access Log and World Map. Thank you, service4.

[Fix] A dependency error was being highlighted for one of our premium add-ons under certain circumstances. Thank you, Peter.

[Fix] The option to not set the session cookie was not working as expected. Thank you, Bjarne.

4.7.5.1

[Update] Implemented a workaround to try and fix the “Forbidden” error that a few users are experiencing when trying to download the MaxMind Geolite2 data file.

[Fix] Updated the link to manually download the MaxMind data file from their servers, and added a new page to our knowledge base to explain how to manually install it.

4.7.5

[New] Now that Slimstat is capable of geolocating visitors at the city level, wouldn’t it make sense to display those visitors on the map? Well, of course! Go check out this new feature by accessing the Geolocation tab in Slimstat.

[Fix] The MozScape report was causing connectivity issues for some users, and it is now set as “hidden” by default.

[Fix] Regression bug related to our Export to Excel add-on.

4.7.3.1

[Fix] Apparently more people than we initially thought have issues with the MaxMind data file not being saved as expected. We are introducing a temporary fix while we try to investigate this issue further.

4.7.3

[Fix] A few users pointed out a weird behavior when installing the MaxMind Geolocation data file, where an empty folder would be created instead of the actual file. If you still experience issues related to this problem, please make sure to delete the empty folder “maxmind.mmdb” under wp-content/uploads/wp-slimstat/.

[Fix] Apparently Microsoft Security Essentials was not pleased with our code, and was returning a false positive alert that a virus was included with the source code (thank you, Sasa).

[Fix] The “content_id” filter could not be used in a shortcode to reference other pages (i.e. [slimstat f='count-all' w='id']content_id equals 2012[/slimstat]). Thank you, Felipe.

[Fix] Country flags were not being displayed properly under certain circumstances (thank you, Catmaniax).

[Fix] Bug preventing the new Heatmap Add-on from working as expected.

4.7.2.2

[New] Added support for SCRIPT_DEBUG: by defining this constant in your wp-config.php will make Slimstat load the unminified version of the javascript tracker (thank you, Sasa)

[Update] Added new parameter to make the admin-ajax.php URL relative, to solve issues like this one.

[Fix] The Network Settings premium add-on was not working because of a bug in the main plugin. Thank you, Steve, for pointing us into the right direction.

[Fix] Updated the schema (columns) for the archive table.

4.7.2.1

[Fix] The new table columns “location” and “city” were not being created on a fresh install (thank you, nielsgoossens)

4.7.2

[New] As those who have been using Slimstat for a while know, we never stop doing our good share of research and development to improve our plugin. One feature on our wishlist was to make the geolocation functionality more accurate. Specifically, users have been asking us to track not just the Country of origin, but possibly the state and city. In order to geolocate visitors, our code has been leveraging a third-party data file provided by MaxMind.com. A while ago, they launched a new data format, which improves performance and offers a way to quickly determine the city of origin. However, the new library required a higher version of PHP, and up until now we had been hesitant to adopt it, to allow more people to use our plugin, over the chance of offering this feature. Now, after spending some time combing through their code, we found a way to get the best of both worlds: by customizing their PHP library, we were able to make it work with PHP 5.3! Which means that now Slimstat is able to tell you your visitors’ city of origin (and State, when applicable) right out of the box. This information is available in the Access Log report and in a new ‘Top Cities’ report under the Audience tab. Please note: the MaxMind data file to enable this feature is approximately 60 Mb, and for this reason this new functionality is not enabled by default. You must go to Slimstat > Settings > Tracker and turn on the corresponding option. Then go to Slimstat > Settings > Maintenance and uninstall/install the GeoLite file to download the one that contains the city data. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

[Update] Removed backward compatibility code for those updating from a version prior to 4.2. Hopefully most of our users are using a newer version that that. If you’re not, please contact our support service for instructions on how to upgrade.

[Update] The format used to save your settings in the database has been changed. You MUST update your premium add-ons as soon as possible, and get the version compatible with this new format, or you might notice unexpected behaviors. Please contact us if you experience difficulties updating your add-ons.

[Update] Cleaned up some old CSS code affecting the reports.

4.7.1

[Fix] The new feature introduced in version 4.6.9.1 to allow our users to customize the default time range for the reports, had introduced a regression bug. Thank you to all our users who volunteered to test the bugfix.

[Fix] A vulnerability has been disclosed by Pluginvulnerabilities.com: an attacker with admin credentials could leverage the import/export mechanism for the plugin’s settings to inject some malicious code. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Slimstat as soon as possible.

[Fix] The new version of the Add-on Update Checker library, bundled with the previous release, was returning a fatal error under certain circumstances (thank you, Pepe).

4.7

[New] After receiving a few requests to implement a REST API within Slimstat, and given that WordPress now offers a mature and stable interface for extending its built-in REST API, we decided to finally move forward and implement this feature. Please refer to our online knowledge base to learn more about how to use it.